Really wishing I would have realized that before buying my Sony Bravia TV a few years ago. It's basically just an output device for my Roku, I don't want/need any of the built-in smart TV junk but a recent update now causes it to reboot just about every time I turn it on.
The reboot process takes almost a full minute, but at least the SONY logo emblazoned on the screen during that time has hopefully given me a Pavlovian aversion to their brand so that I won't make the same mistake again.
I remember buying mine, then them saying they would'nt support apps on it anymore, then a month later the netflix app stopped working, was great timing i ended up getting a pirate box instead. Never again sony, never again.
Just read the original Ars Technica article he "borrowed" all the images from. It's a great article I've referred back to many times; it's better-written and still easy to understand for those not familiar w/ the concepts.
I wouldn't count out a company based solely on a poorly-written job description. Those are often put together by less-technical recruiters or the HR department. And yeah, maybe the team that's hiring should be more involved in the actual job posting, but the whole hiring process is such a huge PITA and time-suck that they're too happy to hand off whatever part they can.
I was curious as to why neither C# nor .NET appeared on the "Top Technologies" graph. Then I realized it apparently combines C, C++, and C# into a single bucket, given that the same tag [1] also shows jobs for all three.
This website is a great example of the challenges with being data-driven. It leads to a conclusion which is terribly flawed because of a failure to account for relevant nuance in the data.
C# is definitely not C++ or C. It would be better to lump it with Java.
But how many developers are now going to walk away thinking they should bone up on C since there are apparently so many positions out there for it?
And how many other statistics out there are similarly flawed? How much of our day-to-day off-the-cuff knowledge is based on poor data entry?
Short story: he was a big deal back in the day, has had a couple pretty big stories but these days he's much less influential.
Now he blogs very infrequently, largely concentrating on his slightly-creepy obsession with IBM. The fact that he so easily gets duped by scammers pretending to be Google[1] and then actually blogs about it is quite indicative of how far his finger is from the pulse of technology.
His essays have been submitted 40 times as HN stories in the last two years (most with more than one person submitting). I have gotten useful insights from all that I have read. If you are going to be so dismissive you might at least give us your recommendations for who has a better bird's eye view of current technology.
I think he's reasonable enough although he doesn't write a lot. The world has changed to the degree that it's probably hard to point to a generalist weekly writer who is the equivalent of the columnists at the old weekly computer magazines. Today, you tend to get writers who are more specialized in AWS, IoT, virtualization, cloud, or whatever. And most of them are consultants, vendors, etc. rather than full-time journalists.
I think there's a pretty good chance that said article was written in jest, and Bob then saw all the comments that didn't get that, and decided to go along with it by reverse-trolling/answering the comments as if he wrote it seriously...
Fairly certain that's his wife. He's made a couple mentions of her as "the young and lovely" Mary Alyce and I vaguely recall once that he specifically discussed shooting the photo for that banner and mentioned her.
> I’m not married to an editor so much as my bindings.
Agreed, and it's extremely annoying that VS Code has different default bindings on different platforms. I switch between Windows and Linux a lot and there's no simple way to e.g. say "use the default Windows bindings on Linux" or vice-versa.
I have to manually create my own keybindings and then copy them to every machine and then bother with keeping them in sync.
The reboot process takes almost a full minute, but at least the SONY logo emblazoned on the screen during that time has hopefully given me a Pavlovian aversion to their brand so that I won't make the same mistake again.